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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 6, 1977
Few Buy Wheeler Dream |
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"My mother asked what I wanted for Christmas and I told her $10 million or $20 million so I can buy a base-ball team," said Jane Keston, 36, a writer-editor for the Internal Revenue Service.Keston did not get the multi-million dollar Christmas present, but she did spend $750 for 30 shares of Washington Pro-baseball Inc. - the public corporation formed by Joe Wheeler in the fall of 1976 to buy a major league baseball team and bring it to Washington....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 27, 1977
The American Real Estate Exchange |
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The American Real Estate Exchange is a San Francisco-based company that believes it has found the way to create a national market in commercial properties.Neither a franchise operation nor a multi-branched broker, Amrex bills itself as a "formal communications network similar to the security exchanges, bond markets and commodities markets for large scale real estate buyers and sellers." Its executives like to speak of their "trading floor,"...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 26, 1977
The U.S. dollar slumped further on all-European m |
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The U.S. dollar slumped further on all-European money markets yesterday and closed at a record low against the West German mark. Dealers across Europe reported active trading and intervention by several central banks to halt the slide.The dollar closed at a postwar low of 2,2470 marks against 2,2575 last Friday in Frankfurt. At the start of trading, it slumped to 2,2460 marks on reports of a large West German trade surplus but closed at 2,2473. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 5, 1977
Mass. Church Official Heads Denomination |
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The Rev. Dr. Avery Post, 52, of Boston, was elected president here yesterday of the 1.8-million-member United Church of Christ.Post, who has headed the church's largest regional conference - massachusetts - for the past seven years, pledge to continue steering the activist denomination on its present course. He succeeds the Rev. Dr. Joseph Evans, who was elected last year to till the unexpired term of the late Rev. Dr. Robert V. Moss.In his acceptance speech, Post said his...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
Egypt Gives Oil Rights |
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Egypt awarded an American petroleum company the first exploration concession in the Sinai peninsula area regained from Israel after the 1973 Arab-israeli war.The eight-year concession, covering 937 square miles along the east bank of the Suez Canal, was granted to the Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania, which must spend at least $28.2 million.It is the 36th agreement Egupt has signed with a foreign company since the country stepped up oil exploration in May 1973. It is Gulf's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 18, 1977
Overtime and Fulfillment |
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Twenty-two years old and fed up, she lounged in denim shorts on the hood of her new yellow chevy in the parking lot outside the Merrifield postal center. She wanted to catch a few minutes of sun before 3:30 p.m., time for her shift sorting letters inside the huge mail factory.She twisted her long brown hair into braids with angry motions as she talked about her job - the machines, the noise, the monotony. She spat four-letter words."Only reason I work here is I need the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 12, 1977
At B'nai B'rith, the End Came With Stunning Swiftness |
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As it began, so it ended for the more than 100 persons held captive inside the B'nai B'rith headquarters on Rhode Island Avenue."We had no idea," one captive said of the ordeal's end. "All of a sudden. One moment, one voice. Another moment, another voice."Other hostages spoke of being frightened when District policemen armed with rifles appeared in the eighth floor conference room where the hostages...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 8, 1977
Israel: No U.N. Role In Mideast Talks |
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said in Jerusalem today that while U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim will receive the honors due his position when he comes here Thursday, Israel has "no intention of according the United Nation any role in the Middle East peace negotiations."Washington Post correspondent H.D.S. Greenway reported that Allon's statement was the clearest public expression of what Israeli officials have been saying privately since the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 5, 1977
"Say you have a secret lover. You see him every |
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"Say you have a secret lover. You see him every day but just don't have the words or finesse to tell him. Our service will do it for you." So speaks S. Lynn Engberg who, along with her brother David Sawyer, runs "Speak Easy." For a $5 or $6 long-distance call, "Speak Easy," a Tucson, Ariz., firm will telephone an anonymous message for you. Enberg says there are all kinds of messages the firm is asked to deliver,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 20, 1977
A Dresden Exhibition |
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An exhibition of more than 300 art works from Dresden, East Germany, originally scheduled to open at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will instead be seen here first at the National Gallery of Art, it was learned yesterday.The Dresden exhibition, which will open at the Gallery in May 1978, surveys one of Europe's richest art collections, that of the Dukes of Saxony. The show, the largest ever lent American museums by an Eastern European country, will include...
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